A Short History of Anglo-Saxon Freedom: The Polity of the English-speaking Race. Outlined in Its Inception, Development, Diffusion and Present ConditionC. Scribner's sons, 1890 - 420 páginas |
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... hundred and twenty millions strong , scattered in sev- eral nationalities actual or incipient , which upon all the continents and all the great islands of the world , stands now so in the foreground of attention . It is a polity one and ...
... hundred and twenty millions strong , scattered in sev- eral nationalities actual or incipient , which upon all the continents and all the great islands of the world , stands now so in the foreground of attention . It is a polity one and ...
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... hundred , and shire . The witenagemote . — Conservative spirit of Al- fred . Influence of the Danes . The ceorls sink toward villeinage . Incipient feudalism . - Edward the Confes- sor • - - - . 11 CHAPTER III . THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS ...
... hundred , and shire . The witenagemote . — Conservative spirit of Al- fred . Influence of the Danes . The ceorls sink toward villeinage . Incipient feudalism . - Edward the Confes- sor • - - - . 11 CHAPTER III . THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS ...
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... hundred , and shire . Char- acter of the King's title . Limitation of feudalism in Eng- land . Work of Henry II in depressing the great vassals . -The Curia Regis . — Serfdom . — Trial by jury . Acces- sion of John . Runnymede ...
... hundred , and shire . Char- acter of the King's title . Limitation of feudalism in Eng- land . Work of Henry II in depressing the great vassals . -The Curia Regis . — Serfdom . — Trial by jury . Acces- sion of John . Runnymede ...
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... hundred years need not here be rehearsed . Government of the people , by the people , and for the people , went into operation , - a thing at that time unknown elsewhere among civilized nations . 1 Unknown elsewhere ; but had the world ...
... hundred years need not here be rehearsed . Government of the people , by the people , and for the people , went into operation , - a thing at that time unknown elsewhere among civilized nations . 1 Unknown elsewhere ; but had the world ...
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... hundred and twenty millions strong , retains sub- stantially the language , institutions , and blood of those ancestors after the lapse of nearly two thousand years . In the ancient villages we can see distinctly a life proceeding , in ...
... hundred and twenty millions strong , retains sub- stantially the language , institutions , and blood of those ancestors after the lapse of nearly two thousand years . In the ancient villages we can see distinctly a life proceeding , in ...
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aforesaid American ancient Anglo Anglo-Saxon freedom army barons became become boroughs Britain British Bryce cause century ceorls Charles charters Church civilization colonies Constitution of Canada Constitutional History council Court Cromwell Crown declared Dominion E. A. Freeman Earl Edward elected electors England English Constitution Englishmen estates Federal feudal France freeman grant hand Hannis Taylor heirs House of Commons House of Lords hundred idea institutions John justice King kingdom knights knights-of-the-shire land legislation legislature liberty Long Parliament Lords Lords Spiritual Magna Charta ment moot nation nobles Norman Parliament passed political popular population possessed present primordial cell Prince realm reform regards representative Revolution royal Saxon says scarcely self-government shire shire-moot South Sovereign spirit Stamp Act stood supreme thegns things Thirteen Colonies tion Tories town town-meeting township United villeins Virginia vote Wat Tyler Westminster Whigs William yeomen